Programs

Individual ESC programs have different requirements. Most programs only accept applications from persons 21-30 years old. Many, but not all, programs require a college degree and U.S. citizenship. Please consult the individual program descriptions for more information. Click here for a geographic map of all our program locations.
Programs are listed in alphabetical order.

Program: Abraham Project
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Description: The Abraham Project, in the heart of Winston-Salem, NC, offers a unique challenge to live a radical year. Living in community and working for the community, project members will work alongside local agencies to rebuild lives and hope. By living simply with others in community, project members will be challenged ... learn more
 
Directors: Fr. Steve Rice, Adrienne Beauchamp



Director: Sarah Nolan
  Program: Abundant Table Farm Project
Location: Ventura County, CA
Description: The Abundant Table Farm Project is a young adult Christian community seeking a contemporary rhythm of life with a land based ministry in Ventura County. The goal of this internship is to connect with young adults who are attuned to the destructive disconnect between land and table in our culture. The Abundant ... learn more


Program: Ark Fellows
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Description: Our world urgently needs sustainable ways of living on the earth, exercising power, and walking with God. The Ark Fellows program invites you to practice these ways of living, leading, and serving the neighbors who need us most. Why Northwest Arkansas? Even if the only Arkansans you know are ... learn more
 
Director: The Rev. Lowell Grisham



Director: Tom Poyner
  Program: DioCal Interns
Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: Why come to California? Let’s not kid ourselves, we know that the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most exciting urban environments in the country and location is a big draw. Participants have convenient access to Berkeley, Oakland (chosen #5 of places to see in 2012 by ... learn more


Program: Episcopal Urban Intern Program
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: The Episcopal Urban Intern Program (EUIP), Los Angeles, is a year-long service learning project of the Jubilee Consortium, a group of inner city Episcopal parishes in LA working together to effect meaningful social change within their communities. Each fall, EUIP gathers a new class of young adults from across the ... learn more
 
Directors: Suzanne Edwards-Acton, Rev. Ranjit Mathews



Director: Rev. Canon Jan Hamill (Interim Director)
  Program: ESC-MD at Gilead House
Location: Baltimore, MD
Description: "When we stand by a neighborhood, welcome the persons who find no hospitality elsewhere and dare to dream great things, we as the church offer the gifts of will and of hope." Bishop John L Rabb. The Episcopal Service Corps-Maryland was formed in part to answer Bishop Rabb’s challenge for the ... learn more


Program: Grace House
Location: Syracuse, NY
Description: Grace House offers an experience of vocational discernment, service, spiritual reflection, and community living in connection with historic Grace Church in Syracuse, NY. Grace House also partners with the Episcopal Campus Ministry at Syracuse University, a large, diverse research institution located in the center of the city. Grace House ... learn more
 
Director: The Rev. Bridget McManus



Director: Susan Gladin
  Program: Johnson Intern Program
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Description: The Johnson Intern Program, based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina blends social ministry, intellectual inquiry, and intentional community into a year that enables young adults to explore their spiritual lives within the context of intentional living. Each year eight young adult men and women are recruited for an eleven-month hands-on ... learn more


Program: Julian Year
Location: Chicago, IL
Description: The Julian Year offers young adults the time and the space to live by faith and work for justice in the city of Chicago.

Inspired by the 14th-century mystic Julian of Norwich who lived in a small dwelling attached to a church, The Julian Year can provide some “breathing room” as you ... learn more
 
Director: Rev. Dr. Lora Walsh



Directors: Rev. Arrington Chambliss, Jason Long
  Program: Life Together: The Diomass Intern Program
Location: Boston, MA
Description: “If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” - African Proverb Overview of the program Founded in Boston in 1999, Life Together is an eleven-month fellowship and leadership development project that matches emerging young leaders (21-35 years of age) with mission-based non-profit organizations and churches throughout ... learn more


Program: Living with Purpose: New Orleans
Location: New Orleans, LA
Description: The purpose of this program, hosted by Episcopal Community Services of Louisiana (ECSLA) is to equip young adults to be effective leaders in our complex world, through hands-on service, community building, and spiritual formation. Participants will spend 11 months living together New Orleans and working with creative programs started in the ... learn more
 
Director: Pete Nunnally



Director: The Rev. Cn. Amy Real Coultas
  Program: New Seeds
Location: Louisville, KY
Description: New Seeds is a residential internship program for young adults based at Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in Louisville, KY. Our interns will share a simple life together grounded in prayer and service as they seek to discern God's calling in their lives. The interns will serve in local social ... learn more


Program: New York Intern Program
Location: New York, NY
Description: New York Intern Program is an opportunity for young adults to commit to a year of service, discernment, social justice and intentional community. NYIP is based at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, the "I am not afraid" community of faith in West Harlem that stands up to pursue justice and peace ... learn more
 
Directors: Sarah Nazimova-Baum, Rev. Earl Kooperkamp



Directors: Rev. Deacon Erik Soldwedel (Program Director), Ms. Kaileen Alston (Youth Ministries Director)
  Program: NEWARK ACTS
Location: Newark, NJ
Description: Beginning in the fall of 2010, The Diocese of Newark will initiate NEWARK ACTS, a service-learning program for young adults that will emphasize social justice, community service, spiritual formation and communal living. Each year, up to 9 interns will live in community at two separate urban sites located in Newark and Jersey ... learn more


Program: Resurrection House
Location: Omaha, NE
Description: Working 20 hours a week in Episcopal parish ministry, 10 hours in a local non-profit, and 10 hours spiritual and theological direction, interns discern what God is calling them to next in their lives. Emphasis is placed on exploring ordained ministry, but not to the exclusion of lay ministry. ... learn more
 
Director: Jason Emerson



Director: Rev. Robert C. Laird
  Program: Rhinelander Volunteer Project
Location: New York, NY
Description: The Rhinelander Volunteer Project (RVP) is a yearlong (50 week) residential service program for young adults. Set at The Church of the Holy Trinity, the Rhinelander Volunteers live together in community, work in the Yorkville and East Harlem neighborhoods with people living on the margins, and become formed as leaders ... learn more


Program: Society of Saint John the Evangelist Monastic Internship Program
Location: Boston, MA
Description: The Brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist (SSJE) offer internships for young men and women (ordinarily 21-34) at their monastery in Cambridge and at Emery House, a rural retreat center in West Newbury, MA. Both houses of the SSJE offer hospitality and sanctuary to people from all ... learn more
 
Director: Br. Mark Brown, SSJE



Director: Robert Hendrickson
  Program: St. Hilda's House
Location: New Haven, CT
Description: St. Hilda's House is a residential young adult discernment program devoted to spiritual formation and urban ministry while living in community. It is based at Christ Church New Haven in partnership with Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University. The unique setting, in the heart of Yale University and New Haven, gives ... learn more


Program: The Road
Location: Atlanta, GA
Description: “If everything seems to be coming your way, you’re probably in the wrong lane.” The Road beckons a diverse group of young adults to spend a year in community on a journey of purposeful engagement with the marginalized in Atlanta, Georgia. Fellows will work 30 hours each week in religious and secular ... learn more
 
Director: Rev. Laura Bryant



Director: Adam Spencer
  Program: Trinity Cathedral Urban Service Corps
Location: Cleveland, OH
Description: The Trinity Cathedral Urban Service Corps is a year-long experiential urban immersion service program for young adults. The program is designed to provide participants with time, space, and resources to discern their futures and grow spiritually and as leaders while living in sustainable Christian community and working in Cleveland’s social service ... learn more


Program: Trinity Volunteer Corps
Location: Washington, DC
Description: Trinity Volunteer Corps, located in Washington, DC, offers young adults an experience of living in intentional community while volunteering full-time in social service agencies that serve the poor. TVC provides the chance to call the nation’s capitol home, learn about poverty while assisting and advocating for poor people, increase multi-cultural experience ... learn more
 
Director: The Revd Canon John Harmon



Facilitators: Roy Philbrook, Gene Philbrook
  Program: Year Exploring Service
Location: Edinburg, TX
Description: Are you looking for a way to make a difference in the world?
YES! An Intentional Community of Young Adults Engaged in Social Justice through Service
YEAR EXPLORING SERVICE (YES) offers young adults the opportunity to live together, with a simple lifestyle, for a year in community, doing justice, while creating ... learn more